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As Hospitals Monitor Drugs, Opioid Deaths See Decline

As Hospitals Monitor Drugs, Opioid Deaths See Decline

Virginia hospitals are monitoring painkiller prescriptions more closely and taking other steps to curb the opioid epidemic, and the efforts may be paying off: Drug overdoses in Virginia have dropped for the first time in six years. In 2016, the opioid epidemic was...

Virginia’s Epidemic Next Door

Virginia’s Epidemic Next Door

A routine day for paramedics in Richmond finds them at a hotel where a young woman is overdosing on heroin. She’ll live because of the 911 call her 4-year-old son placed, but the future for this woman and her son is still hazy. This is the sixth time she’s overdosed...